The Metropolitan Newspaper (New York City)

multaneously with New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester, and other points East where there are papers entitled to the news. In each town or village an operator takes position at his instrument when report hour is called, and is ready to write the report in manifold as it comes over the wire. Another operator writes the message by the transmitting instrument in New York, and that one writing sends it to all points on the circuit. The receivers are highly skilled in the business, and read by sound without the aid of the recorded Morse characters.

The telegrams to the Western press are sent in the same manner, being delivered simultaneously at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and other principal points. At Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Memphis condensed abstracts, known us "pony" reports, are made and forwarded to smaller towns, whose papers can not afford the cost of the longer dispatch. Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore are also served in combination, and reports to all points south of the Potomac are made up by an agent placed at Washington for that purpose. Washington receives a full résumé of the general news of the world, forwarded from New York, and also dispatches from New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, Richmond, and other points. Each of these Southern cities is interested in the news of the others, and to supply them with it a summary of all that has been received at Washington is included in the combination report, which, being delivered at all points, gives back to each city some of its own news. This drawback is inseparable from a combination system, and though it involves some waste of telegraphed words, the saving to the papers is very large.

The Canadians take the Associated Press news from Buffalo to Toronto, whence it is distributed throughout the Dominion. The Pacific coast is served partly from Chicago and partly from New York, the agent of the California press in Chicago being furnished with "drop copies" of what is sent from New York, so that he may avoid duplication. Other "drop copies" of the reports going to California are also taken off the wire at Salt Lake City, Denver, and Cheyenne for the use of local papers.